Bachcha Tendua: Well, you must be wondering, what kind of name is this? And how did he get this name, then lemme explain. This friend was supposed to say Tendua (leopard) ka Bachcha (cub) comes to our NITIE campus through IIT Bombay but as an outsider from Hindi belt, he said “Bachcha Tendua comes to our campus”, which was hilarious to hear. I am not making fun of his multi-lingual skill as India is best known for its diversity, but as a college student we need to have pet names among ourselves, as a souvenir. One more distinguishing feature of our Bachcha Tendua is that he spends more time with seniors than us, even dines with them. This also rhymes with his name “Bachcha Tendua”, metaphorically Seniors are leopard- you don’t wanna come into their attention or radar, but our friend- Bachcha Tendua- is like a son to them. However, indirectly it favours us also as he brings inside information regarding the scheduled programs, which helps us to prepare for better.
Our “Impulsive” Freshman: This character is attention seeker, sometimes it works and most of the times it backfires, but anyway we grab popcorn and enjoy the show of our “impulsive” freshman especially when he is pulled by seniors. One such incident that would add colour this picture, I want to paint for you is the selection of Single Point of Contact (SPOC) among our study group. We were discussing among ourselves regarding the SPOC candidate, some of the members were reluctant to be SPOCs, some were considering for it. Suddenly, one notification popped in everyone mobile phones says this freshman has volunteered to be SPOC, we got a little peace that at least someone came forward for this job. However, no one knew (including this freshman) that this job would be night-awaking as well as thankless. It means each member of team gets his/her task done, the SPOC need to compile all the work and send it to the group coordinator, which usually happens late at the night (2:00 am-3:00 am). So our fresher has to be awake long night till he gets the individual assignments and compile it, no matter how early he has finished his assignment, he cannot go to bed. Our SPOC also had to face the lambasting of seniors in case of individual negligence.
This article is very short to cover the miserable story of our freshman. Poor freshman! Now we rotate the task to ease his burning responsibility.
Maggu: The one who mugs a lot (not people but books). This guy slogs the concepts whole night, silently skips any cultural events and we need to cover for it. Of course, this pays as he is saviour of the study group and enlighten us with the intricate concepts and fundaes. One guy asks him, “What activities you do after you get bored reading a book?” He replies, “I change the book and take other subject book.” As you must have guessed by now that there is nothing much spicy I could add about this personality, pardon me for that. Let’s move to the next character.
The Cool IT Consultant: This guy is one of the coolest character inside the NITIE kingdom. Till now there was two study group meeting with the coordinator and for both classes, our cool guy comes after scheduled time. Coordinator throws him out of the meeting and he walks away happily. But not to forget his contribution in helping us out with software and driver installations. He always carries a pen-drive attached to his neck-chain, of course, his religion is IT. When the whole first year students were frustrated with internet slow speed, our guy invents something to fix the issue, unheard by most of us. So basically, he is a trouble-shooter, in case some virus is troubling us. He also helps us to pick the best deal regarding gadgets within the budget. Hats-off to him for his next two years of free services.
Drama Queen: So, it was the birthday of this queen, considering his gender, I should say King but queen sounds funnier, and we bought him one of the cheapest cake possible, kind of cup-cake (yeah we are evil sometimes). Now it was time we asked him for a treat. Though, he was reluctant for the whole day, but, at last he yielded to our demand. We tricked him and got us into a posh restaurant. There was a total of four guys and two girls (mutual friends). We started with a bucket and things started smoothly. But as the party fever went up, I sense it was me who is in troubled water. The reason was that I was the only non-drinker and whole responsibility of taking my friends safely lay on my shoulder. Buckets kept on adding on the table and I was the only one with empty plate or bottle. To save myself from further embarrassment, I ordered a soft drink (to be precise -Pepsi) silently and bragged of having ordered Virgin Cuba Libre (colour is same as Pepsi). They were easily convinced as all of them were rolling high. Bottles after Bottles, and our drama queen was excitingly uncapping the bottle with his teeth. After some time, his feet started beating the floor and our drama queen has transformed into Michel Jackson, all attention grabbing. This went on for another half an hour and by this time he had already visited the bathroom three times. I asked for the bill and Rs 8000 was tabled, which was shockingly high. Nevertheless, we paid the bill and headed out of the doors. Our drama queen started showing his play with blabbering and non-sense talk. But the real problem started when he went into vandalism mode, starting damaging advertising boards. Though five persons were drunk but all had their mind with them except our Drama Queen. We all tried our best to control his enthusiasm and booked the cab. We all four guys reached hostel, and register our name in the late comers list (post 12:00 am), I was the last one to register my name after made payment to OLA cab. But what I see in the register is that all my drunk friends have the same name and room number in the register sheet.
In the morning some were abusing the anonymous drunkard who has puked in the bathroom, I also made few comments in their sympathy by cursing the unidentified imbiber (wink-wink).
P.S: Little exaggeration added
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